Wynona Studios

The very first First City Celebration in historic downtown Oregon City is tomorrow from 11am-8pm.  As some of you may know, Oregon City was the first city west of the Rockies to be incorporated. And you might know that it was the first capital of the Oregon Territory and had the first federal courthouse and land office. But did you know it was where the plats for the brand new little gold rush town of San Francisco were filed? And that they are still here (they might have asked for them back, and we might have said we wanted to keep them)? And did you also know that in 1846 the first newspaper west of the Rockies was in published in Oregon City? And the first telegraph message in Oregon was sent from Oregon City to Portland in 1855? That the first long distance commercial transmission of electricity in the United States was from Willamette Falls in Oregon City to downtown Portland to light up 55 street lights? Or that in 1842 the first book of fiction written in Oregon was authored right here in Oregon City? Oregon City is a city of FIRSTS!

Currently, historic downtown Oregon City is well known for its arts scene, with the cool and hip shops here like Wynona Studios, Oh Shiny!, This ‘n That, Howden Art Gallery, and more but also because of the fun and happening First Fridays Art Walks. The First City Celebration will have over 60 booths of unique artists all down Main Street to celebrate this artistic and creative spirit. There will also be children’s crafts using locally made paper products and my personal favorite, a wine tasting area with local wineries. The party goes from 11am-8pm and we are really excited about it here at Wynona Studios. If you come down to enjoy the day, make sure you stop by and say hi! We are sponsoring the children’s scavenger hunt around downtown, so make sure you pick one up in the children’s area and complete it! Its quite fun!

Details:

First City Celebration

Historic Downtown Oregon City

July 31st 11am-8pm

Art, Wine and Children’s Crafts